Novel idea, why don't they jump on the band wagon and... Oh... I dunno.... Make their own?

They have, it's the iStripper program itself with its built in playlist creation and editing functionality. It is not as flexible or as convenient as the external programs but it does exist and hopefully will eventually be improved - but don't hold your breath it is not likely to be a high priority item.

@SetFuego - I agree with you - but if SECs increase Totem's profits they are almost certainly going to continue to exist even though both of us dislike their existance. A few disgruntled customers will make very little difference even if they stop buying completely.

Novel idea, why don't they jump on the band wagon and... Oh... I dunno.... Make their own? I mean they are making bank, you would think they could take some time to develope something that clearly people want.

And that closes the circle @TheEmu and I come back to my first statement:

Totem has called the devil, now they have to accept that there are extremely dissatisfied users as long as these ***** SECs exist.

@SetFuego - but doing as you want would reduce Totem's profit from the gambling games but would probably not provide an equal source of profit to compensate for that loss. This is because those that only play the games to get SECs would cease to be attracted by them as they could use an alternative cheaper option. Saying to a business to please reduce your profits to benefit me is unlikely to get you anywhere.

I was fairly lucky last time I played (black Friday): I got all SECs available at that time - a couple I didn't want though. So I gave it a go this time too...

77 scratches
16*5 cred
13*10
3*25
2*50

10 "free" cards
2 virtuagirls
4 deskbabes
3 istrippers
1 old istripper xxx (US studio)

No SEC, but I'm not really surprised.

Out of these 10 cards, one I wanted, and a few I don't mind having.

Compared to other members, I seem quite lucky: got back to my original credit count, so basically got 10 free cards. At some point I was up 50 cred with about 3 or 4 free cards, should have stopped at that point.

I suggest you stop when you're up 40 or 50 cred if you wanna win anything out of this because, as someone else said, after that it only goes downhill.

Anyway can't *****, got 10 cards and I didn't lose any credits, so thanx for that Totem! 😉

Which is correct, but if you look at from their point of view that may not be such a big deal. See @Kaiju 's summary of 2019

This is completely irrelevant to me, since it would be easy for Totem to satisfy all customers by, for example, instead of these damn SECs, only spending jokers as winnings so that everyone can "play for" their desired card. Everyone would get, with or without gambling, "all" wish cards and anyone who wants can still gamble here. All customers are involved, no one is offended or excluded because, for whatever reason, they do not want to take part in gambling or pre-sales.

@pantalone - I do not know whether it applies to the scratch games but in many places it is illegal to dynamically adjust the odds like that even it is an adjustment in favour of the customer.

@SetFeugo - say

Totem has called the devil, now they have to accept that there are extremely dissatisfied customers as long as these ***** SECs exist.

Which is correct, but if you look at from their point of view that may not be such a big deal. See @Kaiju 's summary of 2019

http://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/43757/1?post=645976

where he says that in 2019 there were "over 20,000 special event cards won" and "3000+ Joker cards offered". In each case most of the users will have paid for these in one way or another, often quite steeply. It seems to me that they are probably a good source of extra profit that more than makes up for the losses from dissatisfied customers.

@Alkasyn - you are quite right that in general these games are not "such a great deal for people with already big collections". I would go further and say that they are not a great deal, or even a good deal, for anybody no matter what the size is of their collection - unless you assign a high value to the fun of playing them, which I do not but some may.

I played it 4 times with a 10Cr budget (i.e. I stopped when I was 10Cr down) and got 2 cards, one of which was on my wishlist and one was so old I won't download it.

Maybe I'm wrong, but from people's comments it seems that the game has a straightforward probabalistic strategy - the same for everybody and the same for every scratch. Wouldn't it be better if it played us with a bit more subtlety? I'm sure they could invent an algorithm. For example, net no-loss for five scratches, then a wishlist card, net loss for a bit, then an SEC, then an old card. Modify it each time they publish it. Modify according to collection size. Modify according to playing history. Algorithm secret, o'viously.

If they got it right people could be milked without feeling ripped off. And Totem could monetise the back catalogue.

So I spent a fair bit of credits and got quite a few cards valued at more than I spent if I had bought the cards. All in all I saved about 18.4 credits. (meh) Except for the fact many of them are medium and standard quality... which I've stopped buying...

Then there are two cc/cc+ cards I disabled, because I didn't care for the model. All that taken into concideration, the cc+ cards I kept would have cost 28.75 each instead of 15.

OK, OK, I kept about half of the medium and standard cards. My point is, that it's all in how you look at it. Sure, in the end I got more "value" than I paid for. However, since I disabled close to half the cards I lost out in the end.

Not to mention I was hoping for a special event card... sigh... I didn't get one. =( Oh well.

So, if you're picky, the scratch off games might not be a good idea. I'm rather fond of the check the cards you want, and redraw the rest games. I rarely end up paying full price for cards I want that way. Not to mention I don't end up feeling like I ***** credits on cards I don't want... Like the 59 cards currently disabled... sigh...

*****UPDATE*****
I bought a few more tickets... On this run, I made out like a bandit. 14 more cards, and 3 of them were special events. Only 1... maybe 2 that I'm not keeping. Do I dare buy more? Hmmmmm

I agree with your assessment - this simply isn't such a great deal for people with already big collections, as we end up paying more for the cards than we would've otherwise. I sometimes wonder why I even other with these games, then I remember it's all about boredom and addiction :)

I've Nothing to win in the Scratch Game, so I just played to have a bit of Fun..

I ended up Slightly Ahead, by 10 Credits.

Started out with a few 0,0 scratches, But then I got some 10's and 25's and 5's
Never a Double winner though, always a 0 credit along with one win.

But in the end, I won back all I had Spent, plus 10 credits ahead.

Close to 600 scratch cards. One special event card, but not The Alyssia Kent one I wanted.

Now I'm both broke and heartbroken. ;)

I've got 0 (zero) tickets so far. Didn't win anything either. Scratch game didn't have to give me anything. I would say a classic win / win situation ... 😎

As to your other comment about the SEC's I am also personally not in favor of the company keeping some of their product mostly out of reach of their customers but unfortunately it seems to be continuing [...]

Totem has called the devil, now they have to accept that there are extremely dissatisfied customers as long as these ***** SECs exist. I also feel that this is a lousy trick for making money, only to be able to complete the set of a favorite girl through gambling or advance purchases (e.g. calendar).

Again just my 2 ct on that

Does this app only work on 1 show at a time?

Correct, All of the 3rd Party apps use the same function.
Push the Name of the Clip to be Played on to the Registry.

ONLY the Model in Slot 1, gets the Clip information from the Registry.
ALL other Models are then selected at Random from you Enabled cards of your Collection.

Best Use is to Create a Compatible playlist and Insert that in to the Now Playing Tab on the APP.

The App will then Use that Playlist Exclusively to select Models from.

We, the 3rd Party Developers, are Limited by iStripper.
they only give us provisions to control one of the Model Slots.

Elin Flame one goog out.

Wrong forum. This belongs to the gay section.😎 😀 😆

I don't know if this has been asked and answered, but... Um...

Does this app only work on 1 show at a time? I had 3 shows active, and only 1 was following the filters I marked.

So I spent a fair bit of credits and got quite a few cards valued at more than I spent if I had bought the cards. All in all I saved about 18.4 credits. (meh) Except for the fact many of them are medium and standard quality... which I've stopped buying...

Then there are two cc/cc+ cards I disabled, because I didn't care for the model. All that taken into concideration, the cc+ cards I kept would have cost 28.75 each instead of 15.

OK, OK, I kept about half of the medium and standard cards. My point is, that it's all in how you look at it. Sure, in the end I got more "value" than I paid for. However, since I disabled close to half the cards I lost out in the end.

Not to mention I was hoping for a special event card... sigh... I didn't get one. =( Oh well.

So, if you're picky, the scratch off games might not be a good idea. I'm rather fond of the check the cards you want, and redraw the rest games. I rarely end up paying full price for cards I want that way. Not to mention I don't end up feeling like I ***** credits on cards I don't want... Like the 59 cards currently disabled... sigh...

*****UPDATE*****
I bought a few more tickets... On this run, I made out like a bandit. 14 more cards, and 3 of them were special events. Only 1... maybe 2 that I'm not keeping. Do I dare buy more? Hmmmmm

Elin Flame one goog out.

Anastasia Brokelyn

thanks guys for the reply. The tatoo gives it away for those in the know. So now I find another I like who has a SEC I cannot get, and worst of all its with Jia, which is one of my top faves and could not get that card with her or her other SEC.

To be fair @spawnos that SEC was easily obtainable if you were willing to spend credits on the Advent Caledar.

Do not despair too much however - Liya and Jia did three duo cards and although I cannot guarantee this I don't think the other two cards will be SEc although they might be more expensive than the standard cards.

Avery booie upskrirt.

From my point of view it is pointless to play.

I have all the SEC cards and I have all the currently available cards in the store. I also have several thousand credits from the Black Friday and Christmas reloads.

For those of us who have all the SEC cards perhaps Totem ought to consider offering a JOKER card if we happen to win the SEC card. I may have been tempted to play for this.

However please do not offer any more new SEC cards that are only available through scratchcards. I just think that this unfair for those who do not wish to gamble.

Money talks and all else walks...

yep

@BillGapes two fantastic models and a tough choice. C'est la vie 😊

@dar2112v

Considering there is nothing besides credits for you to win the odds could be that the longer you play the more you'll win?

I hit 25 credits at least 6 times and small denomiations many more times. But there certainly weren't any particular "streaks of good luck" along the way so I can't speak to your question based on my experiences.

I didn't have any set limit but figured that 60 up, 100 scratchers and 1 hour was about right so left after that.

Due to my ability to only win credits I almost never play any of these games and normally when gambling I always end up losing so in this case I am happy with where I left off.

It's an hour that I didn't have anything better to do so I don't consider the time particularly *****. Clicking and swiping the mouse over the 'tickets' certainly isn't taxing physically so I don't consider it work in any way. And it is mildly entertaining from a suspense standpoint.

As to your other comment about the SEC's I am also personally not in favor of the company keeping some of their product mostly out of reach of their customers but unfortunately it seems to be continuing so Totem must be seeing a financial benefit or they would have quit long ago. I suspect that the silent masses who don't participate in this forum lean heavily towards supporting this scheme by continuing to buy the product and playing the games despite the sometime vociferous complaints seen here.

Money talks and all else walks...

Hmm there is a better thread for the info I shared....

I didn't play so nothing lost and nothing gained for me

While I appreciate the gamblers paying for my porn; the exclusive cards are still a real bummer as far as I'm concerned.

I can only get credits but ended up about 60 to the good so I am satisfied that my hour invested was worth it.

LOL ... < $6 worth of credits for an hour of work was worth it? I hope it was at least entertaining in some way.

Considering there is nothing besides credits for you to win the odds could be that the longer you play the more you'll win?

Ariel A is a great model and has enough skills for a Take 2

I agree. But I would wait for a year or so - since we aready have literally tons of comebacks scheduled for first months of 2020...

I just finished 100 scratchers.

I can only get credits but ended up about 60 to the good so I am satisfied that my hour invested was worth it.

I would not mind a Take 2 from Ariel A 😍🔥

thanks guys for the reply. The tatoo gives it away for those in the know. So now I find another I like who has a SEC I cannot get, and worst of all its with Jia, which is one of my top faves and could not get that card with her or her other SEC.

@Spawnos

That is Liya Silver.

I bought 110.

I only play these as I want to get the SEC cards that I am not allowed to buy. I think I am about 200 credits down, won about 10 cards I did not want. A bunch of credits I used to buy more cards.

I just want to get the special event cards. I am getting pretty frustrated on that.


On another note. Who is the Girl on the scratchcard? I cant find here anywhere?

Bought 3, won nothing at all.

Well I'm 57 next month. When I was 25, I only looked at women between 18 and 27. Gradually, that grew over the years to 18 and whatever woman would take me...

@HombreSinSombra

Forever? I don't know about that, but I wouldn't mind, I rather have it stay fun than regret buying. I used to feel a bit uncomfortable because of how society looks at these things I guess, but how you describe it is exactly how I feel about it, I'm a beauty junky. Thing is, I've started painting a while ago and I haven't met a single person who didn't like my paintings, and I've even been asked if I took lessons haha. Some people might think looking at strippers is shallow, and I used to follow that mindset too, thing is, being attracted to women is just natural and I happen to be a very visually oriented person, a beauty junky.

@TheEmu

Yes, and taste changes over the years, 10 years ago I wouldn't have been attracted to a 33 year old woman, but now I'm 32 myself and my taste just naturally progressed. What I'm attracted to changes over the years, in the last few years I've noticed how much certain clothing and colors actually mean to me. In fact, I'd have to say I'm a bit obsessed with clothing and makeup, especially fake nails, dresses and high heels.

Agreed, fireguypotty1.
I have all her cards and would love some more.

I don't normally like the scratch card game, as I'm not too keen on getting a pig-in-a-poke card I probably don't want.

So I usually just decide to throw away 40 or 50 credits in the forlorn hope of picking up a special event card.

This time: invested 40 credits, got 5 credits back. Net loss 35 credits. I'm out. 😉

@Spartan9769 - as the cards in your wishlist are not in your collection that is almost the last place that I would expect to find it. It can be found on the "Girls Store" page using the "Selection" filter.

One would think whishlist would be found in My Collection. I can't seem to find it where ever it is located and I did try to search the forum but nothing came up. When I first added to my whishlist I clicked the don't show again by mistake. So I missed what it said which Im guessing is where they are stored. Thank you for your help.

@BillGapes

I started out with a similar way of collecting - I thought I would just get 50 or so cards concentrating on those with dresses and a few featuring lingerie. Then I got a few more, and added a bit of variety and things just grew from there, Along the way I found that I liked a rather broader range of every aspect of the cards than I had originally thought I would.

Hooked... Line and sinker... Forever!

Welcome again to the unique, one and only best place to have adult fun and share, discuss and sometimes debate with like-minded, beauty junkies.

No escape my friend! 😈

@muttonjeff

Lol, yes, I said that when I had 36 cards, I spent a bit extra because I liked the idea of having a nice "starter pack" with a bit of variety and then just enjoy those for a while, thing is, it had cards from girls I wanted more of. That and, I never really watched stripteases before as it didn't interest me, so I had no idea I'd enjoy it this much or how amazing some women can dance.

So now I'm quite satisfied with the cards I have, there are a few that weren't as interesting as I hoped, but now I know what to look for and is most important to me.

1. Skirts and dresses make it irresistible to me.
2. Apparently I prefer the curvy women over the very skinny ones, dancing look way hotter.
3. It's a striptease, just if the woman is hot doesn't mean she has good moves, this is more important to me than I expected.

For now I like Tracy Smile but I think Vicky Love is amazing too and I've been looking at her more, love the classy short dresses.

Cool girl, deserves a second performance. What in times that girls with tattoos are getting more lately than natural ones and such a beautiful girl was only once.😕

Bought 5 scratch cards for 25 credits and won 45 credits, and it was time to stop playing :)

And that surplus to my credits was more than deserved after spending some on Gia Ren's card today (not disappointed at Gia - she is a beauty - but at the content chosen for her card). I choose to think I deservedly got my money back from that purchase.

wise move

I was recently informed by a very good authority that DEMO clips can only be labelled as level 1 or level 2. Strange but true.
Check any XXX card with a demo showing more than, well anything, you'll see ;)

Edit: If you think about it, you've probably seen lots of demos in the past where a model's pussy is on show, maybe even briefly.

I'm guessing that the reasoning behind this is that Totem's preview (demo) policy is to show off a little more on occasion but the carousel or demo download will block anything over level 2. So to slip in the odd pussy flash, it has to be labelled as level 2 (topless)…

Anyway, for those that need to only have level 1 (NO nudity) showing in a public area or whatever, that's why it's there :)

The third demo clip is labeled Topless, but should be at least Full Nudity.

450 credits netted me:

278 scratch cards (I put the winnings back in)
1 SEC
28 other cards - 7 older, 20 newer

Won 25 credits 5 times, 50 credits 0 times, the initial 5 cards put me in the positive, actually, but rest was, as expected, downhill. The cards I got randomly were actually OK, this time.

Ariel A is a great model and has enough skills for a Take 2. For me an exception on the rule "As few Take 2's as possible".